Guv Race Roundup: Confusion at Camp Shami, seceding from Perry, a globalist meat grinder, and 18 years of Perry?

You may not have heard of David A. Diaz, a man who helps with messaging and sends out press releases from his AOL e-mail account on behalf of the gubernatorial campaign of Farouk Shami, but you are not alone. Neither have some in Shami’s campaign staff.

An internal unsigned campaign e-mail accidentally sent to the press shows frustration on the part of some in the campaign, who want to “muzzle” Diaz, who campaign officials say is not a part of the campaign.

Here is one line from the internal e-mail:

No one with the campaign has authorized these statements and whoever they are, they are sabotaging every bit of legitimacy Farouk has as a candidate.

However, the Austin American-Statesman has reported that one campaign official says that Diaz is part of the campaign: Farouk Shami himself. Shami said that he hired Diaz and that Diaz travels with him.

Meanwhile, Shami gave a new message Tuesday, saying that he is a proven success and former Houston Mayor Bill White and Gov. Rick Perry are failures.

Eight More Years?

When Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison announced her run for governor, she might have thought that Perry would say that 10 years as governor would be enough.

Nope. The already-longest-serving governor in state history wanted 14. Why not 18?

The Dallas Morning News reported that Perry refused to answer the question of whether 14 years was enough, saying that it would be “inappropriate” to comment at this time.

“I think that is a totally inappropriate question from the standpoint of I have no idea what I want to be doing past November, other than getting to be the governor of the greatest state in the nation,” he said. “I’ll let you ask that some other time when it’s more appropriate. Thank you all for coming.”

Hutchison wants state to secede from Perry

Well, she didn’t actually say secede, but in the homestretch of her primary campaign, Hutchison is asking voters to “declare independence” from Perry.

Early voting started Tuesday, and, like Perry, Hutchison has already cast her ballot.

Globalist Meat Grinder

Whoever wins the Republican primary can expect to still have someone running to the right of them in the general election.

Fran Cavenaugh, a self-described Reagan conservative, will be running as an independent this year. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports that Cavenaugh is citing his experience as a pastor who has run three churches over the past 18 years as a qualification for office.

So why didn’t Cavenaugh run in the Republican primary?

“The Republican Party is a globalist meat grinder that will produce another globalist so why get involved?”